John Flügel

Short description: British psychologist and psychoanalyst (1884–1955)

John Carl Flügel (13 June 1884 – 6 August 1955), was a British experimental psychologist and a practising psychoanalyst.

## Contents

* 1 Training and career
* 1.1 Psychoanalytic career and writings
* 2 Marriage and death
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading

## Training and career

Flügel was born in Liverpool on 13 June 1884, to a German father and English mother.[1]

### Psychoanalytic career and writings

Flügel's book Psychoanalytic Study of the Family (1921) was acclaimed by Eric Berne for its insights into the Oedipus complex.[2] He also published Men and their Motives (1934) and The Psychology of Clothes (1930),[3] the latter continuing to influence thinking on the subject into the 21st century.[4]

In Man, Morals and Society (1945), Flugel charted a movement from egocentrism to social awareness by way of what he saw as a hierarchy of expanding loyalties.[5] Reaching back to his old mentor, he also highlighted “the distinction that McDougall has sometimes made between an 'ideal', which is little more than an intellectual assent to a moral proposition, and a 'sentiment', which involves a real mobilisation”.[6]

## Marriage and death

In 1913 Flügel married Ingeborg Klingberg, who also became a psychoanalyst. They had one daughter. Flügel died in London on 17 August 1955.[citation needed]

## References

1. ↑ Graham Richards, 'Flügel, John Carl (1884–1955)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 [1]
2. ↑ Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1976) p. 134
3. ↑ O. L. Zangwill, 'Flugel, John Charles', in R. Gregory ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987) p. 264
4. ↑ R. Koppen, Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernism (2009) p. 59
5. ↑ J. C. Flugel, Man, Morals and Society (1973) p. 242-3 and p. 317
6. ↑ J. C. Flugel, Man, Morals and Society (1973) p. 67

## Further reading

* Graham Richards, Flügel, John Carl (1884–1955), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
* FLUGEL, John Carl, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 30 Jan 2012

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